[Sca-cooks] swiss chard =/= beet greens?

[Terry Decker]

There are two standard translations of Apicius, M.E. Milham and Jacques 
Andre.  Andre translates this to mean beet greens.  I don't know how Milham 
translates this.  Flower and Rosenbaum go with beet root.  Beta means beet, 
but without contextual clues, it is hard to determine whether root or green 
is called for.

There are a couple of other recipes in Apicius one that calls for beetroot 
(small beets as ingredients in a laxative broth) and the other calling for 
different greens including beet in a barley broth.

Bear

> Bear commented:
>> The beets with mustard from Apicius has been translated to mean both
>> Beet root and beet greens.
>
> In the same recipe translation? Or do you mean that some translators have 
> assumed the beet root, while others have assumed the beet greens?
>
> Stefan